New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
*deepest breath ever*
Most of y'all will never understand or respect the deep intellect required to function on a daily level that is manifested by a black woman living under the poverty level feeding 5 people on a shoestring budget. You want to change the world? Feed people.
Most startups fail, not because startups are hard, but because two affluent dudes from an ivy league have no context with which to understand what a problem worth solving actually looks like and they never will
Used to be you could order free Ubuntu CD’s. Their first release proved controversial. I got like 48 of them as a teen. They’re now going for $10+.
Ubuntu is a Zulu word for an African philosophy of interconnectedness, which is the theme they were going for.
Remember, Russia attacked Ukraine in Fall of 2018, attacked Ukrainian Naval boats transiting the Kerch strait. Trump cowered in fear shutting off all operations in the Black Sea, for months... because he's a coward.
NSA and DoD recommended a host of options that would have advanced deterrence... deterred further Russian aggression. Trump was petrified. He froze. He was and is a scared, weak child.
Remember, Iran attacked US troops Feb 2020 injuring 109 Americans in Iraq, and Trump responded with nothing but fear. He's a small man.
He Did Nothing. He is weak.
It serves our ememies that the convicted felon, convicted fraud, sexual abuser said, 'It would not have happened if we were in office' because it did happen. Donald gave cover to Iran and Russia, and he mocked US service members, saying their traumatic brain injuries were just headaches.
Dutch F-16s supplied to Ukraine can be deployed on targets anywhere in Russia without US permission, says Netherlands Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot. https://nos.nl/artikel/2522702-nederlandse-f-16-s-ook-inzetbaar-voor-doelen-in-rusland
I'm amused that it is "news" that OpenAI is training another model. Did anyone expect them to let their primary capital assets just lie dormant?
@vruba my first chat with ChatGPT was inquiring about it's theory of mind and I'm now glad that's how I anchored my expectations.
@eleventy thanks! Even if the answer is just “that's the standard, embrace the future" I'm glad to have *an* answer
@billyjoebowers we can’t separate the work from the creator or accept that people change over time, without giving up our obsession for the well-defined individual who stands steady across all contexts. If we avoided the Fundamental Attribution Error or essentialism of the self, how could we properly judge each other?
Re-posting here for the good..
Very glad to announce the first 72hr Collapsible writing sprint - The Collapsathon!
Pls share widely. Let's do this!
Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.
European Space Agency #ESA has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. #CSA, the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.
Graphic from launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_launch_kit
@GeePawHill ill take this bait!
I think (hope?) AI coding assistants have a meaningful future. (The copilot in the “Cursor” IDE is kinda blowing my mind.)
The rest is bullshit. Except agile-in-name-only, which is pure, distilled and refined, civilization-threatening bullshit.
Today in not a drag queen
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — A local member of a New England-based neo-Nazi group known for disrupting children’s “drag queen story hours” has been charged with possessing child pornography.
Stephen Thomas Farrea, 34, a member of the Nationalist Social Club-131, had been arrested two years ago while distributing white nationalism leaflets in East Providence.
Then, last month, the Portsmouth police got a tip that Farrea may be in possession of child pornography.
@pluralistic first time I’ve seen you being confused for Ayn Rand
@pepelsbey @mxbck @eleventy me too, only because I use Node.js only for eleventy and so have not bothered to actually understand the CJS→ESM. Probably I need to spend a minute learning *why* it’s a good idea.
@distractionfactory this is a simple reading. You are entering a new period of great slack.
Status on whether countries allow Ukraine to use their weapons against Russian territory:
✅ UK
✅ Finland
✅ Sweden
✅ Denmark
✅ Norway
✅ Estonia
✅ Latvia
✅ Lithuania
✅ Poland
✅ The Czech Republic
✅ The Netherlands
✅ France
✅ Germany
✅ Canada
Your move Joe Biden.
Hello world – #introduction time! This is the #devlog for Found, an #indiegame and #rpg
Found is an adventure where the player, a cloaked figure with glowing eyes named Em, explores a soft-poly world that has been torn apart, reassembling broken bits of land and figuring out who they are (and have been) along the way.
All art is created using #procreate and #blender; development is done in #godot. If you only want pretty, follow on instagram. If you want messy details, this is the place.
@burningbird I know this gets really messy, lest we judge everyone trapped in an abusive marriage, et al. I don’t have an ethical framework that simplifies to either “you are responsible for your spouse’s behavior” or “you can allocate any awkward household issue to them”.
@burningbird naturally, and probably doesn’t deserve any more attention than any other MAGA-enthralled aristocrat.
I’m very cautious about guilt-by-association, but marriage is a strong enough association I am reluctant to shrug off “that other person I live with did it”.
@burningbird I find the blame-the-wife pattern of Alito and Thomas gross because I cannot imagine being that out of sync with my life partner.